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--------------------What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you think you know,
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection,
Is it all you want it to be?

If 000110 would be 9, wouldn't it be more consolidated by just having 9 instead?

--------------------What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you think you know,
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection,
Is it all you want it to be?

you'd need a solid state system that could represent 9 states. we have transistors that are boolean, 0 or 1 and they work very simply and efficiently and can scale to whatever higher base system you want to use.

--------------------If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on.you'll see devils tearing your life away.
But...if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels
Freeing you from the earth.

Yeah, well I don't really know much about electroonics or microchips. This was just one of those thoughts that just popped into my head.

--------------------What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you think you know,
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection,
Is it all you want it to be?

i've actually taken a class on this kinda stuff. was really interesting learning how computers create logic.

--------------------If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on.you'll see devils tearing your life away.
But...if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels
Freeing you from the earth.

I think that could be done, given today's technology. The problem, I think, is that the algorithm becomes so much more complex. If you want to add one to a binary number, you simply switch the first digit which is zero and switch all digits below it. If you want to add one to a decimal number, it becomes a lot more difficult: "If the state is 1, make it 2. If the state is 2, make it 3. .... If the state is 9, make it 0 and set all states below to 0, too. Switch the first digit which is not 0."

But now, this got me thinking. If binary arithmetic is that much easier, why did we invent the decimal system in the first place? Okay, we have 10 fingers, but don't we have two arms, two legs, two ears, two eyes and two heads? It doesn't make sense. The decimal system is bullshit. Memetic evolution gone mad.

I think when we have then alot of things could be explained, I remember seeing somewhere that it could be even possible to send information backin time. I could be wrong though, but at a quantom level things dont make much sense, like you can change the out come of something just by mesuring it.

I don't know about the time travel thing, but a quantum computer would be the end of mathematics. We could prove everything in mathematics in a couple of minutes. That would probably get us close to the end of physics, too. And when we are at the end of physics, we will probably be at the end of psychology. And when we are at the end of psychology, we would understand everything and could spend the rest of our life playing pacman on a fucking quantum computer.